Needle-thread take-up for sewing-machines.



N0. 667,l70. Patented Ian. 29, l90l. H. A. KLEMM.

N EEDLE THREAD TAKE-UP FDR SEWING MACHINES.

(Application flld. Oct. 20, 1900,)

{No Model.)

W/TNESSES /,v VENTOHI Q W W @4562? Q I B) EQNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERM ANN A.- KLEMM,

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IE'atent No. 667,170, dated January 29, 1901. Application filed October 20, 1900. Serial No. 33,684. (lilo model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN A. KLEMM, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needle-Thread Take- Ups for Sewing-Machines, of which the fol-- lowing is a specification.

needle-bar and presser-ba'r supportingmm of a sewing-machiue,with the cover of-the recess in said arm in which thesaid' apparatus is arranged detached; Fig, 2 isaplan view of the thread-guide with which'the lever cooperates.

A represents the said stationary arm; b,"

the headof the same; 0,5-the needlebar; d, the lever for operating the needle-bar; e, the pivot of said lever; f, the conneting-r0d whereby motion is imparted to said lever by an eccentricon the main shaft, (not shown in the drawings;) g, a link, and h a clamp. -by

which the-needle-bar and lever are connected,

said link being pivoted to the lever and clamp; at its ends, respectively. These parts are allof well 1 known construction and are not"- clai-med; but in connection with them I pro vide'the bell-crank lever, comprising the long thread-take-up arm jjand the short working arm is, pivoted at Z to asup'porti'ng-hracket m,.locatedso as to supportv the pivot Z at a suitable distance back of the head band alongthelever d in the direction of its pivot.

The arm j reaches forward through a slot in thethea'd b,;with its end. havingjf'an eye n,

projecting from the head over.a-duplex thread guide 0, and'the arm is reachesdownward from the pivot along one side ofslever d and is connected by a-linkp with the lower free end of a lever q ,'.th e up per end of which is pivoted at s to a fixed support,whichin the drawings is a part of bracket m, but may beany other suitable part. .1

The lever q extends downward along the side of lever d and has a slot i ranging lengthwise of it, and the lever d'carries arollerstud '11,, working in the slot. The pivot sis set in a larger radiusof pivot e of the needlebar-working lever d than stud u, so that as the needle rises the eye 'n of take-up lever j descends and releases the thread for action gofgthe looper, and when the needle descends .said eye'n'ris'eslanddraws up the slack of the ---loop.ii.

Itis manifest a lever q without the slot tand. working-between two studs on lever 01 the invention. v

It will be seen that the lever q'and stud or studs of the lever 11 afford very simple, e'asy,

fWOrking, and reliable means of operating the take-up take-up lever.

"What I claim as my invention is- In a needle-threadtake-up device for'sew ing machines,thecombination with the needleLbar, and the needle-bar-operating lever, said lever arranged ,on the side of the'stationary needle;bar snpport ingarm, of the elbow take-upl-le'v'e 9,179 pivoted; fat Z, the lever q =tpi'voted atf's,' as't'lid or studs -on the lever d, p q ;thei;link connecting saidlever;g,:andarm Jootjthe take-up lever, and threadt-g uide 0, the long armj of said take-up levelflextending forwardof the head of the stationary snpporfting arm, the pivot would be angequivalen t ofthe arrangement v -..'s'ho'wn andgtherefore alike within thescope of of thelever q being in theveccentricrelation to the actuating stud or' studs for causing down movement of the take-up lever when the needle-bar-actuating lever rises, and up movement of said take-up lever when said needle-bar-actuating lever swings downward.

, Signed, at New York city, N. Y., this 15th day of October, 1900.

i .7 IH'ERMANN A. KLEMM.

Witnesses:

O, SEDGWIOK, 1 M. HOWARD. 

